Why Hanuma Vihari Decided to Never Play for Andhra?
Hanuma Vihari, Former captain of Andhra Pradesh, who quit his captaincy more than a month ago, has opened up about the reason behind that and decided to never play for Andhra Pradesh again. He published an Instagram post that explained the overall story behind his decision. The Post Caption reads:
“We fought hard till the end but it wasn’t meant to be. Gutted to lose an another quarters with Andhra. This post is about some facts I want to put forward. I was the captain in the first game against Bengal, during that game I shouted on 17th player and he complained to his dad(who is a politician), his dad in return asked the Association to take action against me.”
“Although, we chased 410 against last year’s finalists Bengal I was asked to resign from captaincy without any fault of mine. I never said anything on a personal note to the player but the association thought that player was more important than the guy who gave his body on the line last year and batted left handed, took Andhra to knock outs 5 times in the last 7 years and played for India in 16 tests.”
“I felt embarrassed but the only reason I continued playing this season because I respect the game and my team. Sad part is association thinks that players have to listen to whatever they say and players are there because of them.
“I felt humiliated and embarrassed but I’ve not expressed it out until today. I’ve decided that I’ll never play for Andhra where i lost my self respect.
I love the team.
I love the way we’re growing every season but association doesn’t want us to grow.”
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Hours after this post, Hanuma Vihari published another Instagram post, the new post featured an application written by the Andhra team to the Andhra Pradesh Cricket Board in response to a player complaint against Hanuma Vihari for alleged use of foul language. Accompanying the post. Vihari added a caption stating “The whole team knows! “.
The team’s official application clearly indicates that the entire team supports Hanuma Vihari and wants him to continue as their captain.
The content of the application states “This is about the ongoing issue about HANUMA VIHARI. A complaint has been issued by a fellow teammate in the Ranji squad that vihari has used foul language and has approached him aggressively, but the truth is he has not approached him aggressively and this sort of language has been a very common thing in our team atmosphere and it is always in getting the best out of the team, and it has been used since long ages in team dressing rooms. Unfortunately one of the team member took it personally. We all the team players including the support staff have been witness to it, and we want vihari to continue as our captain. Since we have no issues with him and he always bought best out of us and as you can see the team has done very well and united in his leadership and also qualified more than 7 times under his leadership. Sir this Ranji season means a lot us as players and we have prepared so well and also started the tournament with a win against Bengal. As Andhra Ranji team players we want vihari to lead our side”
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